About Robert Hsu

Robert Hsu, March 05, 2008

My name is Robert Hsu and I've been making money for years by watching Asia's growth and identifying trends that deliver the greatest return on my clients' money. As one of the leading experts on investing in China's economy, I advise people every single day on how a China strategy will truly take them to a new level of investing. Here's a bit about me and my credentials.

I was born in Taiwan and raised in Southern California. I'm an American citizen and I share a heritage with more than a billion ethnic Chinese around the world. I've spoken English my entire life, but I speak, read and write Mandarin fluently.

Being proficient in Chinese is not the reason that I've been able to successfully invest in Asian markets -- although it hasn't hurt. After all, there are more than a billion other people in the world who can read Chinese and have an ethnic background similar to mine. That's obviously not what makes me unique. What sets me apart from other investors is my history of investment success, and my understanding of what's happening across Asia today.

I started my career as a trader and analyst for a global macro hedge fund and was then hired by Goldman Sachs, the world's premier investment firm. I learned a great deal about every aspect of international markets while at Goldman, and put that expertise to good use.

I eventually took my knowledge of international equities, interest rates, currencies, and commodities markets with me to start my own firm, Absolute Return Capital Advisors. I have offices in Century City, situated right next to Beverly Hills and Hollywood.

I also oversee Pearl River Capital Management, a private investment partnership that focuses on China. We take long positions relative to the Chinese economy, and we short emerging markets that lag China.

I have three extremely successful investment newsletters, China Strategy, Asia Edge and Inside China Dispatch. China Strategy, in particular, has become one of the largest subscription-based services in the U.S. since its launch in 2006.

In order to stay on top of investment opportunities across Asia, I employ a team of analysts in the Mainland to keep me up-to-date with information relevant to my current holdings as well as potential new investments. I also read Chinese newspapers and periodicals while at home in California and travel several times a year to visit the Mainland. I firmly believe that getting firsthand information has been crucial to my success.

What else? I live in Beverly Hills with my wife and two children. Even though I've worked and traveled all over the world, I like Southern California for a number of reasons. I like the weather, I like driving my convertible with the top down all year long, I like the exotic restaurants, and I like the energy and excitement that comes with being in a place that is on the cutting edge of everything from food to fashion.

Beyond that, I like building my wealth, and I enjoy the fact that my job makes other people wealthy, too.

My investment advice is that now, more than ever, investors looking to build their wealth must look outside of the U.S. for real and sustainable growth. To attain superior absolute return in the new century, buy-and-hold U.S. stocks are just not going to deliver the profits that I think every investor should expect. And in looking to make the biggest returns, I've found that the single best place to find great returns is China, where the economy continues to grow almost 10% a year.